Mark 1:35-39 This past Monday, I was hit by a metaphorical freight train. Out of nowhere on Monday afternoon came a fever, head cold and aches that sucked all the energy out of my body and I slept for 48 hours without being able to read or even think. It was only on Thursday that…
Mark 1:14-20 2:13-14 One of my early recollections of reading the gospels when I first became a Christian is that I was intimidated by the response of the disciples when Jesus called them to follow him. As I read the stories, Jesus was walking along the lake, saw some fishermen who were complete strangers to…
Mark 1:14-2:2 How would you react if this morning someone came up to the front of the church and announced that today was the last day of the world and within just a few hours we would be in heaven? “He’s crazy! How did I let him talk me into letting him speak to the…
Mark 1:1-8 Today is the first Sunday in the period of the church calendar that we call Lent. In the first centuries of the church, Lent developed into a period of time of preparation for baptism which was held on Easter. It was modeled after the forty days of fasting Jesus experienced in the wilderness…
Romans 5:3-5 Today is the last of this year’s sermons on Romans. We started a year ago to work our way through Paul’s letter to the church in Rome. We made it to 3:8 last year and this year to 5:5. We will pick up this series again on January 2, 2005, starting with 5:6….